The Cremator (Spalovac mrtvol)

1969

Czechoslovakia

1h 35min

15

Directed by: Juraj Herz

Cast: Rudolf Hrusínský, Vlasta Chramostová, Jana Stehnová

Language: Czech

Chilling black comedy about Karl Kopfrkingl, an undertaker who believes his work releases the souls of the dead, and whose ever more extreme delusions are easily accommodated by the uneasy political climate of late 1930s Europe.